Dreams...

Thought:  If someone could transplant me to a tiny flat in London with a view of the back of some weird old building with the song April Come She Will by Karrin Allyson playing in the background, today would be perfect.  I'd just sit there, drink coffee and delay taking a shower.  Once that shower happens it would be time for me to meet some friends for dinner who I want to see but also want to blow off to stay home and stare out my window some more.

Instead I'll stare at this and do work.

MESSY DESK by Molly

Dear Cast of Modern Family,

    I'm sure you have very good reasons for this, but I ask that you remember one thing. All of you are working actors on a hit TV show that didn't get cancelled for next season. Some of us still have to work in an office 9 hours a day 5 days a week while praying we get to take a lunch break on Thursday so we can make it to a state lottery commercial audition.

Please be grateful.

Regards,
Molly.

Happy Bride...

A few posts ago I mentioned that I don't like sad bride pictures. That doesn't mean that I like all happy bride pictures.

"a Hahahah HAHA hahaha" - direct quote from model

She looks so happy she's floating!  Wonder what the direction was for this expression?

Oh, wait I know. There wasn't any direction.  This was a candid moment. The nervous model laughed at a dumb joke the photographer made because she wants to be remembered as "easy to work with*."





*been there, done that

Pluot...

Oh look at this! A new-to-me fruit that is 100% real fruit and not a strange combination of fruits made by men in a lab!  I just love nature and it's wonders!

Duvet...

I bought a duvet cover for my new home with Jand-iance (corrected spelling, thanks mom). It's one I had admired previously and just happened to go on sale, so of course that means I had to buy it.  Thankfully he approves.

Lunch...

Mmmm

This definitely fits into the whole "eating whole foods" thing I've been doing. I mean...berries are fruit.

OMG, WHEN IS THE WEDDING?...

JLo doing her wedding thing. I'm sure this photo is copywright Columbia pictures. Yes, I looked up the studio that produced The Wedding Planner.

So yeah...sometime in the near future I will be planning a wedding and then after that having a wedding and then oh yeah, be married forever and ever amen.

I would be lying if I said I wasn't excited. I am very excited! I love planning things. I love it. I like projects. My love of organizing and planning is the biggest reason why I probably shouldn't be an actor because actors (who are just actors) have to wait for projects whereas I love creating them (and also starring in them, cause I wrote them and I can do that).

I haven't actually started planning anything because the Jandy-iance (new name) and I don't even live together yet. First things first y'all.  Once our moves are done and settled we will have a grand old time partying and planning.

That being said, I've done a little wedding googling because I can.  It's no longer creepy for me to do so. As a single gal, if you sit at your desk at work or wearing your jammies in bed and google "weddings," it's weird. You're "lonely" and "pathetic" or "putting too much pressure on a relationship that is still so new" or "putting pressure on a relationship that is so old it should be over already but it's still hanging on like yogurt to the top of a yogurt lid."  I personally don't think these things, but the world does.

While googling I've seen some things I like and some things I don't.  Mostly I've seen things I don't understand.  I've started a list, not of things I want, but of things I could care less about:

Bridesmaids Hairstyles: ...who cares?  My friends are beautiful capable women who know their hair better than I do.  Why would I ever tell them how to wear it?  They are the professionals over themselves.

Bridesmaids Dresses: If I tell them what dress to buy they will never wear it again.  No matter how many times I tell myself, "that dress is cute and they could totally wear it again."  They won't.  They won't ever wear it again.  They should pick out a dress they will wear again.  This goes back to the whole, they are beautiful and capable and can dress themselves.

Favors:  You will never convince me that my family, friends and acquaintances will use this tiny vase and matchbook set with my initials on it.  They won't.  It will go in their purse or pocket.  They will forget it about it.  They will throw it away.  Then those thousands of dollars I've spent were just for me to feel better. To say, "Oh you're spending money on me, I should get you something."  The only "favor" to me that makes sense is if I wrote them all a personal note to say "Thank you for coming, it really meant a lot to me and Jandy-iance."  Which I will do in the form of thank you notes for my gifts or lack of gift.  This one will segue nicely into...   

Proper Gift Amount: Dear Friends and Family, I don't care how much money you give me. I don't care if you buy me something off my registry.  I don't care how much the Target gift card you bought me is for. I don't care. You're showing up to celebrate a big life moment for me. That's enough.

Sad Bridal Portraits: When you google this, you don't have to look up "sad bridal portrait." Just look up "bridal portrait."  You'll get enough sad ones. THIS IS THE HAPPIEST DAY OF OUR LIVES.

When trying to figure out where to go for dinner, my family was always a chorus of Idont'carewhateveryouwants. I came up with (or read somewhere) that if we figured out what we didn't want to eat first, then it narrowed down what we did want to eat. It seems I'm taking this approach with the wedding I will plan at some point.



*These are things personal to me. If you did these at your wedding I'm sure it was beautiful and it meant a lot. I'm in no way knocking your wedding.

This happened...

That's my grandma's ring y'all

So I haven't been doing much of anything lately except running around screaming "Oh yeah, oh yeah" over and over.

The fiance and I will be moving in together for the first time in a couple of months. Recent fianced conversation:

Fiance: So are you going to cook for me everyday now?
Me: I'll cook for you sometimes, sure.
Fiance: Cool. I'll kill all the bugs, sometimes.

Touche.